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I PORTABLE WASH STAND. N0. 358,743. Patented Mar. 1, 1887.

ATENT FFiCEO HARVEY O. LOWRIE, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

PORTABLE WASH STAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,7-l3, dated March 1,1887.

Application filed October 6, 1865. Serial No. 179,177. (No model.)

To all whom it may eonccrlu Be it known that I, HARVEY C. Lowers, of Denver, in the county of Arapahoe and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Wash-Stands; andI do hereby declare that the following specification, taken in connection with the drawings furnished and forming a part of the same, isa clear, true, and complete description of the several features of my invention.

The prime objects of my said improvements are to provide in a portable wash-stand having a water-tank and a waste-tank for abso lute security against overflow and leakage of the waste waters ;also,for convenience in drawing off the latter and cleansing the waste-tank, and for filling the water-tank and cleansing it when required. For accomplishing these ends, I have, as I believe for the first time, combined with a bowl permanently set in aportable stand or cabinet a waste-tank which, although tightly coupled to the bowl, is readily detachable therefrom for convenience in cleansing, and from which, while still coupled, its contents can be drawn off. I have also provided for controlling all drip-water which can possibly escape from the couplingjoint, and I have so combined the bowl-coupling, the waste-tank, and a door of the cabinet that said door, when closed, serves as a tightening medium for the joint or coupling. with my water-tank I employa pump, and these are so combined with each other and the top of the stand that, although. the pump can be conveniently de taehed, and the water-tauk wholly removed for cleansing, if need be, the latter is rendered accessible for that purpose without removing the pump, and said tank may at any time be conveniently supplied with water without moving the tank. I have also so organized and arranged the several parts of the apparatus within the cabinet as to eeonomizein space and afford ample storage-room for the reception of various chamber utensils.

After a detailed description of the drawings, the several features deemed novel will be specified in the several clauses of claim hereunto annexed.

Figure 1 is a front view of a cabinet washstand embodying my several improvements in their best form, the doors being open for disized; but it may be of wood, if desired.

of the cabinet-doors, and a part of an interior partition in section. Fig. 6 is a vertical central section of the coupling-joint on line y, Fig.5. Fig.7,in vertical central section,illustrates a cabinet wash-stand embodying certain portions of my invention, but arranged to afford a specially prompt bowl-discharge,which is controlled by a treadleh The cabinet A of the wash-stand illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, may be widely varied in construction,so far as relates to exterior finish, without departure from my invention, and the same is true of the interior, provided there be a suitable supporting-shelf, a, for the permanently-set bowl B and a suitable support, b, for the water-tank 0, although said tank may be deeper and supported by the floor of the cabinet, if desired, and supports cand c for the waste tank I). At certain other points in the interior the cabinet must be constructed with reference to certain special purposes, as will be hereinafter indicated.

The top E of the stand is preferably composed of marble or of slate or metal marble- The doors d d are preferably as shown.

The set bowl B is provided with a wastepipe, 6, which is in the form of a horizontal elbow, projecting at its outer end toward the front of the cabinet, and said end is tapered to form a nozzle, as clearly indicated at e in Figs. 5 and 6. This elbow must, at its rear side, be firmly braced against horizontal thrusting-strains applied from the front side of the cabinet, and this is preferably provided 9 for by bracing it with the adjacent interior wood-work of the cabinet, said elbow in this case passing through an opening in a vertical partition, f, and abutting against the side f of said opening at the rear, as clearly indicated in Fig. 5.

The waste-tank D, in its best form, is' composed of sheet metal, and is rectangular in horizontal outline, is deeper at the front end than at the rear, and its bottom is rounded from side to side, as clearly shown. It is mounted in place by means of two slide-flanges, g, at its top and sides, which occupy grooves or bearings g in the wood-work of the cabinet and enable the tank to be easily run in and out longitudinally. -At one side of this tank and near its front end it is provided with a horizontal elbow, h, pointing rearward and having a socket, h, to which the nozzle e of the bowl pipe or elbowe is nicely fitted with or with-- out suitable packing. The elbow e at the base of its nozzle has a flange or shoulder, e, and the elbow h has outside of its socket a springcatch, h, so that when the waste tank is pushed inward on its slide-bearings the socket registers with the nozzle, and said catch automatically locks them together, and when the tank is to be removed said catch must first be depressed. A handle is located at the front end of the tank, as clearly shown. For assuredly causing the socket and coupling to maintain proper relations, the door (I of the cabinet on its inner side and in the same horizontal plane is provided with a cushioned abutment, d, which, when said door is closed, engages with the front side of the tank-elbow h as to force it toward the bowl-elbow e,- and for maintaining pressure thereon a hook, (P, on the shelf a is engaged with a staple or screw-eye, 01*, as shown in Fig. 1, or by means of a turn-button and knob, (1 engaging with a keeper, d, in the partition f, as clearly indicated in Fig. 5, either of these two forms of clamping devices being well suitedfor this purpose. It will beseen that the door cannot be closed until the coupling has first been properly connected.

I am aware that wash-bowls have heretofore been provided with flexible tubes serving as spouts for conveying water. from said bowls into waste-tanks, and also provided with compressing devices, by which said tubes could heretofore employed.

The importance of well guarding against overflows and leakages will be obvious. For controlling all possible leakage at the elbowcoupling I have provided the socket h with an interior annular drip-chamber, h, as shown in Fig. 6, and this communicates with a conductor, t, which extends downward and beneath the waste-tank to its front end, and beneath this is a suitable slop-bucket, E. This drip-conductor will serve a good purpose if it be no more than a solid wire or rattan; but I prefer it to be a pipe, as shown.

For convenience in drawing off the contents of the waste-tank into the bucket l have provided a discharge-opening guarded by an automatically-closed spindle-valve, F, forced to its seat by a spring and lifted by means of the top of the spindle k, near the front end of the tank. It will be seen that as soon as thelevel of the water in said tank is ona line with the bottom of the bowl that fact will be promptly made apparent by the presence of water in the.

bowl; but,as this might not be discovered until the bowl was again filled, I have provided .an overflow-waste by Way of the interior of the spindle k, which is tubular and has an entrance at on the overflow-line, thus causing the overflow to fallinto the bucket and, by the noise due to its fall, indicate the necessity for prompt attention.

In some cases, as a special precaution, the waste-tank is confined in positionby means of a springlatch, h, located on an interior partition and arranged to overlap the front end of the waste-tank near its upper end.

The water-tank G, as before stated,is mounted 011 the shelf 1), which is in slide-bearings, so that it can be taken out and put in longitudinally, and thus enable 'the tank when empty I to be dropped from its position and replaced;

or said shelf may be left intact and the tank sufficiently pulled forward thereon by means of its handle to enable it to be tilted. downward at its front end, and thus afford ample 4 through the marble top of the cabinet and provided with a handle or knob, Z.

For obtaining the best results I mount the pump so that it will rigidly depend from the marble top and be wholly detached from the water-tank. As here shown, there is near the top of the pump-barrel a flange, P, which abuts against the under side of the slab or top, and the top of the barrel is screwfthreaded, so that it may be engaged by the internal thread of the cup-shaped escutcheon-plate Z and thusbe firmly clamped to the slab. The pump-rod passes through a hole in said plate, which serves as a guide, and the knob Z is screwed upon said rod, thus enabling the pump to be lifted from the tank on removing the knob and plate and then lifting and laterally moving the top; or, by lifting said top bodily, the pump may be removed from the tank without separating it from said top.

When the water-tank and pump are arranged so as to permit the tank to be moved longitudinally and then tilted, the bottom of the pump should be considerably above the bottom of the tank; but when said tank is to be limited to movements in a vertical direction the pump may be in contact with the bottom of the tank, although it should be sufficiently high to pre vent the lifting of sediment and be practically a suspended pump.

The water-tank may be supplied from a nozzled bucket by way of a suitable opening in the front side of the tank at its top, or by way of an opening in the slab or top, as at m, and in this latter case a funnel can be used or a pitcher relied upon, and said hole is preferably occupied bya close-bottomed soap-dish, which is fitted to said hole so that it will serve as a suitable cover.

The bowl in the stand thus far described is provided with the usual waste-plug and a discharge-opening of the usual size, and I will next describe a cabinet having a larger wasteplug, which is controllable by a treadle.

Referring to Fig. 7, it will be understood that the cabinet is mainly as before described, and differs therefrom internally only so far as is incidental to the variations in construction and arrangement of the bowl B, water-tankO, and waste-tank D. The pump G is substantially as before described. The wash-bowl B differs from the first in having an annular waste-chamber, l3, and a large waste-plug, which is operated by a spring-spindle and a treadle, substantially as shown, described, and

claimed in my application for Letters Patent filed July 23, 1884, Serial No. 138,559. As a novel feature, however, said waste-chamber has a horizontal waste'pipe, e, which at its outer end is screw-threaded externally for receiving an internally-threaded sleeve, 6, having at its outer end a tapered nozzle, 6, and also having arms by which it can be readily rotated. The wastetank D in this cabinet is mounted upon a ledge, 12, on the inner side of the adjacent end of the cabinet, and also upon one or more opposite swinging brackets, a, so that one side of said tank will be in close engagement with the. interior of the end of the.

cabinet. On the opposite side of said tank there is a soeketed opening, 0, to whiehthe tapered nozzle e is fitted, thus enabling the sleeve-nut, when rotated, to couple tightly and form a reliable connection between the bowlchamber and the tank, suitable packing being inserted at p to secure tight joints. In the event of possible leakage at this coupling, a drip-pan, q, is secured to the side of the tank, which discharges by Way of its pipe q into the slop-bucket E. In this case the waste-tank has an ordinary cock, i',,for controlling the discharge, and it also has a cover, 8, which is so tight and is atsuch aheight above the bottom of the bowl as to afford but little liability to overflow, and ample vent will be afforded while drawing off the water by lifting the plug of the basin. If desired, however, the cover maybe made to fit loosely without fear of overflow.

' In some classes of wash-stands I propose to ger of sewer-gas common to ordinary setbowls.

In still another variety I propose to employ only the bowl, the water-tank, and the pump, relying upon a slop-bucket for receiving the waste.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In awash-stand, the combination of a set wash bowl, a detachable waste tank, and a waste-pipe provided with a readily-detachable coupling tightly connecting said tank with the bowl, substantially as described, whereby the undue filling ofthe waste-tank willbe promptly indicated by non-flowage from the bowl.

2. In a wash-stand, the combination of aset bowl, a detachable waste tank, a soeketed coupling, and a drip-chamber provided with a conductor leading beneath the waste-tank, substantially as described.

3. In a wash-stand, the combination of a set bowl, a detachable waste tank, a socketed coupling for connecting said bowl and tank,

and a spring-latch for locking the coupling joint, substantially as described.

4. In a wash-stand, the combination, with a set bowl and a sliding detachable waste-tank, of a socketed coupling between said tank and bowl, and a hinged door on said stand pro vided with an abutment for forcing and holding the parts of said coupling together on closing said door, substantially as described.

5. In a portable washstand, the combination of a set bowl, a detachable water-tank, and a pump secured to the wash-stand top extending within said tank and communicating with said bowl, substantially as described, whereby either the pump or the tank may be separately removed for repairs or for cleansing and without disturbing the bowl.

6. In a portable wash-stand, the combination of a pendent pump and a sliding water tank, substantially as described, whereby, without disturbing the pump, the tank may be moved longitudinally and tilted.

HARVEY O. LOWRIE. Vitnesses:

WILLIAM B. GRAY, EDWARD F. BIsHor.

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